Whoo hoo! It's Zoom time, again!
As well as doing face-to-face seminars on How To Be A Successful Self-Employed Gardener, which are based around my book of the same name (relentless plug!), I also do a lot of online Zoom seminars, on behalf of the WFGA (Working For Gardeners Association), for people who are not able to get to one of the face-to-face sessions.
The next one is Saturday April 12th, and to book, go to the WFGA website. Look, there's a picture of me, scything at a ridiculous angle!
This is the blurb for it:
“Once you’ve been a self-employed Gardener for a couple of years or more, it’s easy to get swept up in the seasons, and to lose sight of your initial goals.
This seminar aims to help you take a fresh look at your business, to deal with any problems or issues that might have arisen, and to encourage you to look beyond your current situation.
Rachel the Gardener is a Professional Gardener, Plantsmith, Field Botanist, Consultant Forensic Horticulturalist, gardening Journalist, and Author, having published over two dozen Botany and Gardening books, including How To Be A Successful Self-Employed Gardener which was written specifically for people just setting out as Gardeners.
With a style that has been variously described as “chatty and informal” and “appropriately bossy”, Rachel will take you through the commonest problems and pitfalls: wasting time; un-necessary paperwork; increasing your income; targets and how to use them; dissatisfaction with your Clients and how to deal with them. In the second session, Rachel covers specialising; how to increase and stabilise your hourly rate, and why you should do so; how to deal with late payers and low payers; when and how to ‘sack’ unsatisfactory Clients, and how to replace them with better ones; then some pointers on Expanding and Looking Forwards; with questions being asked all along the way.
All delegates can submit questions by email beforehand: and all delegates will receive a pdf version of the two presentations, afterwards
The talk will start at 9:30 via Zoom and with breaks will last approximately 3 hours.
The cost for this on-line event, is £35 per WFGA member, £45 non WFGA member.”
I do love that "appropriately bossy" bit! Anyway, there's your next chance to meet me, live and sort-of in person, so to book a place, go to the WFGA website, and I hope to “meet” you, in April!
